![]() ![]() "Coote is a natural, wryly dissecting the workings of human desire. "Coote is a natural, wryly dissecting the workings of human desire." - The New York Times Book Review Unforgettable, disturbing, and morally complex, Innocents permanently unsettles our notions of innocence, experience, and power. She leaves the aunt and uncle who are her guardians and moves in with her teacher together, they quickly embark on a journey into their darkest desires. ![]() When the nameless young narrator of Innocents decides to seduce her teacher, she immediately realizes that the power of her sexuality is greater than she ever imagined. Forcing someone vulnerable and naive into a sexual. But when the perpetrator is a sixteen-year-old schoolgirl, is she culpable? And if the victim is her thirty-four-year-old teacher, shouldn't he have known better? Written when Coote was 19, Innocents is a taut, wickedly clever descent into the anatomy of an obsession. We all know that manipulating someone naïve and vulnerable into a sexual relationship to satisfy a twisted desire is wrong-even evil. Written when Cathy Coote was nineteen, Innocents draws readers into the anatomy of an adolescent obsession. enthralling and ultimately sobering" ( Kirkus Reviews). We all know that manipulating someone nave and vulnerable into a sexual relationship to satisfy a twisted desire is wrongeven evil. A young novelist "turns Nabokov on his head in this tale of an Aussie Lolita who sets her sights on a witless teacher. Written when Cathy Coote was nineteen, Innocents draws readers into the anatomy of an adolescent obsession. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() He gradually began to see the plight of dragons in Europe through Temeraire's eyes and is evolving more and more into the world's first human activist for dragon rights. The colorful and prickly Sultan and his court, the addition of dragon eggs to be protected and cared for, a vengeful Celestial bent not on killing Temeraire, but on stripping him of everything in his life he values were compelling story elements and very exciting to read about.Īlso, Lawrence's evolution of mind was the most interesting aspect of the book. That being said, there was much about this book I loved. The endless descriptions of troop movements and the crushing weight of poor conditions and lack of food on the troops were given too much attention and slowed down the pace of the book. ![]() The second part of the book, the Prussian campaign, dragged considerably. I'm sorry to say I think the author fell prey to her own fascination with the military history of the time and lost sight of what the reader's personal interests might be. This was another foray into the foreign culture and politics of the Napoleonic era, this time exploring first Istanbul and the Turkish people and then moving north to the crushing military defeat suffered by the Prussians at Napoleon's hands. ![]() ![]() ![]() Nicholas, in which the serialized version of the story was told, was highly anticipated each week a Fauntleroy chapter appeared. Velvet Lord Fauntleroy suits and collars were sold in stores, and the magazine St. A traditional rags-to-riches story, Little Lord Fauntleroy was as popular in his time as Harry Potter is in ours. Like A Little Princess and The Secret Garden, Little Lord Fauntleroy upholds the goodness of children as a way to solve problems in the adult world. ![]() Cedric travels to Dorincourt, where he must transform from a poor city boy into a young man fit for Earldom, and while trying to win the heart of his grandfather he must also stay true to himself. Following the death of his father-an Englishman disinherited for marrying an American-poverty-stricken lad Cedric Errol is called upon by his cantankerous grandfather to assume the family name and title. ![]() ![]() ![]() People will come up and say, 'I loved your book.' And I say, 'Which one?' I think of Don Quixote, who is more famous than his creator, Cervantes.". ![]() And I might add that book is more loved than I am. "I have a competition going with 'City of Night,' " Mr. The success of "City of Night" was followed by, among other works, "Numbers," "The Sexual Outlaw", "Rushes," "Bodies and Souls", "Marilyn's Daughter," "Our Lady of Babylon" and his novel "The miraculous Day of Amalia Gomez, "Which has been taught in Several Chicano literature courses throughout the United States. ![]() Using the language and techniques of film, Rechy. ![]() The book sold 65,000 copies in hardcover and remained on the New York Times best-seller list for 25 weeks, peaking at No. In this angry, eloquent outcry against the oppression of homosexuals, the author of the classic City of Night gives 'an explosive non-fiction account, with commentaries, of three days and nights in the sexual underground' of Los Angeles in the 1970sthe 'battlefield' of the sexual outlaw. His novel "City of Night," published 1963 by Groove Press, chronicles the journey of a young Mexican-American from the border town of El Paso into the gay underworld of Times Square, Hollywood Boulevard and the French Quarter of New Orleans during the 1950s. The youngest of five children born to poor Mexican parents during the Depression, once wrote, "There was so much poverty and hunger in El Paso and Juarez that we didn't consider ourselves poor, because we ate and had a home." But as a gay boy in Texas, he did often feel like an outsider. John Francisco Rechy, born Main El Paso, Texas, USA, is a writer, novelist, essayist, playwright and literary critic. ![]() ![]() Or is it? You Melted Me Brian couldn't resist playboy executive Leland Whitacre in spite of their employer's strict no fraternization policy. Matt finally coming out has stirred his mother's wrath, though, and four years of not loving Matt is about to cost Denny everything. Loving the very closeted Matt cost Denny everything once: his home, his family, the safety net of his trust fund. Gabriel falls for the shifter who is lover and destroyer, owner and.friend? The Importance of Being Denny Matt appears on Denny's doorstep four years after Matt's mother put Denny on the first bus out of California. Treasured? Or cursed? As Gabriel's father, the Distinguished Gentleman from Pennsylvania and stalwart of the conservative party, pushes the considerable resources at his disposal to locate his missing son, Gabriel explores who and what he is under his master's careful protection. He is the rarest among their kind: a human omega. ![]() ![]() ![]() Gabriel is carried away to the pack's home territory where his instruction on what it means to be the pet of an alpha begins. ![]() I, Omega After one mind-shattering night with a stranger at a local leather bar leaves him forever changed, Gabriel lives on the streets as a vagrant to elude the master who hunts him, but the were-shifter is a fierce, stubborn predator who reclaims him soon enough. ![]() ![]() ![]() Paperback rights to Pocket Books Literary Guild dual main selection Military Book Club main selection major ad/promo. Coyle's prose is often clumsy, the chapter-head quotes (from Napoleon, Sherman et al.) are as pertinent as fortune cookies and the ending manages to be sentimental and ungrammatical at the same time. And confusion arrives with the authentic alphabet soup: lots of info about MRRs, RDEs, BDUs, etc. Interest is not sustained by the book's undeniable authenticity, which has all the style of a training manual. But all the characters are paper-thin and all sound equally earnest and boring. The narrative consists mainly of set pieces on back-and-forth desert fighting, flashing from one side to another and featuring some continuing characters. Harold Coyle is an American author of historical, speculative fiction and war novels including Team Yankee, a New York Times bestseller. There is a little suspense about whether Iran, fighting both ``satans,'' will detonate an atomic bomb, and somewhat less about whether the U.S.S.R. ![]() ``places its trust in the ability of the individual soldier and his leaders.'' We are not surprised, therefore, when his thriller picks the winner of a two-month war between the superpowers in Iran. ![]() Army officer Coyle ( Team Yankee ) says that the Red Army treasures ``conformity and discipline'' while the U.S. Sword Point: A Novel Author Harold Coyle Publisher Simon and Schuster, 1988 ISBN 0671665537, 9780671665531 Length 397 pages Subjects Fiction General Fiction / General Export Citation BiBTeX. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A man of reason and purpose, he should not be distracted by the wholly unsuitable Eden Haverden. ![]() The DeCourcy sins have haunted Chester his entire life.ĭetermined to create a new legacy for the tainted duchy, Manchester’s every action and decision are governed by diligence and discipline. So why doesn’t she listen to her common sense? But reluctantly accepting Chester’s invitation to stay the night at his familial estate after she nearly drowned? Yes, that assuredly was a rash decision and invited utter ruin. Imprudently agreeing to take the charming rogue home when his horse went lame wasn’t either. Plowing headlong into the Marquis of Sterling and dropping eggs on his boots wasn’t the most foolish thing Eden Haverden had ever done. What’s a future duke to do when the most unsuitable woman possible captures his heart?Įden had tried to avoid even a hint of scandal her whole life. ![]() ![]() After a parable that begins the book by envisioning a future in which silence reigns over the world after pesticides have wrought their ultimate destruction on the environment, Carson lays out her basic thesis. In addition to the actual accounts of contamination that she describes, Carson’s book also contains an overarching argument about the proper relationship between man and nature that contributed to the growth of the “deep ecology” movement regarding the interconnectedness of all living things and systems. In many ways, Silent Spring served as a public warning, gathering expert opinion on the dangers of this increasingly destructive practice. In Silent Spring, a book that is often viewed as a landmark work of environmental writing, Rachel Carson turns her attentions to the potentially harmful effects of pesticides on the environment – particularly those pesticides, including DDT, that were being administered via aerial spraying in an attempt to control insect populations on a massive scale. ![]() ![]() ![]() Granted it wouldn’t be as bad if most Fantasy writers would design their settings from scratch based on local folk tales. ![]() The genre is pretty much based on cribbing from Tolkien and/or Howard, and telling redundant stories in pseudo-medieval settings colored by pseudo-Germanic folklore. Conversely, there is no such thing as “Hard Fantasy”. ![]() Writers aspiring to do “serious business” Hard SF must always move their goal posts and look to the future. If they do, they typically get lumped into the Space Opera category and scoffed at. No one these days can get away writing the same way Asimov, Lem or Clarke did in the past. SF genre tends to force writers to invent new interesting settings all the time as the progress makes old predictions obsolete. On the other hand, I don’t read many fantasy books because the genre is a little bit stagnant. On one hand, I absolutely love the classic Tolkienesque “dwarves, elves and goblins” style settings in my movies, video games and pen and paper RPG’s. I have a very strange relationship with the Fantasy genre. ![]() ![]() ![]() "Spectacular! The Hollow keeps you reading from beginning to end without coming up for air." -L.J. How could Kristen have kept silent about so much? And could this secret have led to her death? As Abbey struggles to understand Kristen's betrayal, she uncovers a frightening truth that nearly unravels her-one that will challenge her emerging love for Caspian, as well as her own sanity. ![]() Just when Abbey starts to feel that she might survive all this, she learns a secret that makes her question everything she thought she knew about her best friend. Caspian clearly has secrets of his own, but he's the only person who makes Abbey feel normal again.but also special. Then she meets Caspian, the gorgeous and mysterious boy who shows up out of nowhere at Kristen's funeral, and keeps reappearing in Abbey's life. ![]() Abbey goes through the motions of mourning her best friend, but privately, she refuses to believe that Kristen is really gone. When Abbey's best friend, Kristen, vanishes at the bridge near Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, everyone else is all too quick to accept that Kristen is dead.and rumors fly that her death was no accident. ![]() |